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Green Built Texas Multifamily Project Wins National Green Building Award

Friday night at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, local multifamily builder Tonti Properties’ new development La Valencia at Starwood was named the “Green Multifamily Project of the Year” by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). The national award was presented at a gala dinner during the weekend long NAHB National Green Building Conference. T. Boone Pickens was the event’s keynote speaker. (more)

Towards a Statewide Initiative

In August, 2006 the Home Builders Association of Greater Dallas (HBA) introduced a green building program known as Green Built North Texas (GBNT). Since then the program has grown from a small band of eco-conscious home builders into one of the nation’s most successful green building initiatives. GBNT finished last year with more than 200 members, was featured at International Greenbuild Conference in Boston, and was honored by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) as their Green Building Program of the Year.

The program's construction protocol addresses strategies for site development, water efficiency, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, materials usage and homeowner education. Last year the program combined this protocol with an innovative home verification and registration process, resulting in some of the largest green building commitments in the nation to date.

The verification process also enabled GBNT to create one of the nation’s first interactive registries of green homes, which enhances the builder’s sales prospects and provides a unique consumer resource. The more than 1,600 homes currently registered with the program include some of the largest builders in the state with sales prices ranging from the $120s to more than $2 million. Thanks to the GBNT protocol’s emphasis on water and energy efficiency (requiring ENERGY STAR certification with a HERS Index of 83 or below), the program has already produced substantial environmental benefits.

Due to the demand of builders already constructing GBNT homes in markets outside DFW, the desire of local HBAs to have a basis to cultivate their own green building initiatives and the need for a dynamic program that helps coordinate the various public and private sector initiatives and incentives; Green Built North Texas has made the move to a statewide green building program now known as Green Built Texas.

Local Program Affiliation

Local program affiliation with Green Built Texas is designed to be a turn-key operation whereby the affiliate (local HBA or local HBA endorsed green building program) signs an agreement with the HBA and the HBA provides the information and work products it has created, which the affiliate can use to better serve the needs of their membership. The goal is to avoid administrative burdens on the part of the affiliate’s staff, while enabling participants to have memberships in Green Built Texas as well as the local initiative.

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